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HEAD Penn Sponsored Players Win Seven Medals at Pan Am Games

July 27th, 2015, Racquetball

Held every four years, the Pan Am Games are the pinnacle event for the world’s top racquetball players to represent their country on the international stage. HEAD Penn sponsored athletes, Paola Longoria and Rocky Carson, both captured gold medals in their brackets.
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HEAD Penn Rules US Junior National Championships

June 29th, 2015, Racquetball

Players on HEAD Penn’s Junior Team flooded the podium at the 2015 USA Racquetball National Junior Olympic Championships. The tournament, presented by Penn, brought more than 200 of the nation’s best junior racquetball players to Northern California for the 42nd edition of the event. Headlining the HEAD Penn team in Stockton were four players who all earned spots on the U.S. National Junior Team that will compete at the World Junior Championships this fall in the Dominican Republic.

HEAD PENN’S PAOLA LONGORIA FINISHES SEASON AT #1 YET AGAIN

May 18th, 2015, Racquetball

For the fourth consecutive season and sixth overall, HEAD Penn’s Paola Longoria finished at the top of the season ending rankings on the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT). At the season ending Pro Nationals event in Virginia, Longoria won her tenth tournament of the season. In her eight full seasons on the LPRT, Paola has won 60 Grand Slam or Tier 1 events.

HEAD PENN DOMINANCE ON LADIES PROFESSIONAL RACQUETBALL TOUR CONTINUES

April 29th, 2015, Racquetball

Another week and another all HEAD Penn Final on the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT) as Paola Longoria and Maria Jose Vargas faced off for the seventh time this season for a tournament title. And for the seventh time, Longoria came out victorious over Vargas in the match-up of the top two ranked players in the world.

ALL HEAD PENN FINAL AGAIN ON LADIES PROFESSIONAL RACQUETBALL TOUR

April 21st, 2015, Racquetball

For the sixth time this season, HEAD Penn’s Paola Longoria and Maria Jose Vargas faced off in a tournament final on the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT). Longoria, the World’s No. 1 ranked player, and Vargas, the World’s No. 2 this season, have both dominated the top level of women’s professional racquetball all season long. Between the two, they have won every event during the 2014-2015 campaign except for one.

HEAD PENN’S PAOLA LONGORIA RETURNS TO WINNING WAYS

March 24th, 2015, Racquetball

HEAD Penn’s Paola Longoria, the World’s No. 1 ranked player, bounced back from a rare tournament defeat earlier in the month to win the Southern California Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour event. In addition to winning the Professional Singles division in Fountain Valley, Longoria captured the Professional Doubles division.

HEAD PENN’S MARIA JOSE VARGAS CONTINUES CAREER YEAR

March 8th, 2015, Racquetball

HEAD Penn professional touring player Maria Jose Vargas won her second career professional tournament on Sunday at the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT) New Jersey Open event. Vargas dropped the first game of the final before winning the next three games to capture the title. Maria’s first career professional victory came last December, also on the Eastern Seaboard in Virginia.

HEAD PENN’S PAOLA LONGORIA STRENGTHENS HOLD OF LPRT TOP RANKING

February 24th, 2015, Racquetball

HEAD Penn’s Paola Longoria kicked off the second half of the 2014-2015 Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour season in the same dominating manner in which she cruised through the first half. The winner of five of the six events she played in this season, Longoria demolished the competition at the Winter Classic in Overland Park, Kansas without dropping a single game and only allowing 30 total points scored against her all weekend.

HEAD Penn’s Paola Longoria Earns Pan American Games Spot

February 12th, 2015, Racquetball

Paola Longoria, the World’s top ranked female racquetball player, took home gold in both the Women’s Singles and Women’s Doubles competitions at the Campeonato Nacional Selectivo tournament over the weekend. Serving as the selection event for the 2015 Mexican National Team, winners will represent their country in upcoming international competitions including the Pan American Games this summer in Toronto.

HEAD PENN DOMINATES PRO TOUR STOPS IN OHIO AND SOUTH DAKOTA

January 25th, 2015, Racquetball

Entering the weekend, HEAD Penn’s Paola Longoria and Rocky Carson were the No. 1 players on their respective tours, Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT) and International Racquetball Tour (IRT). Neither players disappointed and went home with tournament championships.